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basics
sound devices
figurative language
100
The difference between poetry and prose.
What is form?
100
The repetition of sounds at the END of words.
What is ryhme?
100
Language that appeals to one or more of the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
What is imagery?
200
How poems are organized.
What is lines and stanzas?
200
The use of a word, phrase, line or sound more than once.
What is repetition?
200
Imaginative descriptions that are not literally true: simile, metaphor, personification.
What is figurative language?
300
Two forms of poetry: one follows a pattern and the other does not.
What is traditional poetry and free-verse poetry?
300
The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
300
"The sun spun like a tossed coin."
What is a simile?
400
The "voice" that "talks" in poetry.
What is the speaker?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds in words, that do not end in the same consonant.
What is assonance?
400
"Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below."
What is a metaphor?
500
"Just once my father stopped on the way into the house from work and joined in the softball game we were having in the street, and attempted to play in our game that his country had never known." is a what form of poetry?
What is free-verse?
500
Robert Frost paid close attention to the end of each line to create a pattern. "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."
What is an example of an a, a, b, a rhyme scheme?
500
"When I opened the door I found the vine leaves speaking among themselves in abundant whispers. My presence made them hush their green breath, embarrassed, the way humans stand up, buttoning their jackets, acting as if they were leaving anyway, as if the conversation had ended just before you arrived."
What is personification?